Dr Jan-Henrik Meyer
Senior Researcher
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Dr Jan-Henrik Meyer has been a Senior Researcher at the IZT since 2020. Since September 2024, he has been co-project manager for the project "Discourse History of EMF Criticism in Germany - Actors and Positions". In addition to his work at the IZT, he continues to work at the Max Planck Institute.
His research interests include environmental and energy history, politics and law, European integration and social movement research. He has in-depth knowledge of the history of society and nuclear power, as well as European and transnational history
Before joining the IZT, he worked at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory and at the Universities of Copenhagen, NTNU Trondheim, Aarhus Universitet and the University of Portsmouth.
Dr Jan-Henrik Meyer has an interdisciplinary academic background that includes studies in history, political science, sociology and European studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin, the London School of Economics (LSE) and Duke University. He holds a doctorate from the Free University of Berlin.
In addition to his academic work, Dr Meyer has been involved in various networks and initiatives. He coordinated the network's energy working group, Tensions of Europe, and is the founder and organiser of the Berlin-Brandenburg Colloquium on Environmental History. He is also a regular lecturer, including at the Free University of Berlin.